Improvement in clothes-wringing machines



I M. G. F. WAY. Clothes wringing-Machihe's L Pmd md Nov.'24,1874.

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MARTIN WAY AND FRANK WAY, OF SPRINGFIELD, OHIO, ASSIGN ORS TO HENRY J. WOOD, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN CLOTHES-WRINGING MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 157,252, dated November 24, 1874; application filed April 22, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we,-MART1N WAY and FRANK WAY, of Springfield, in the county of Clarke and State of Ohio, have invented certain Improvements in Olothes- Wringers, of which the following is a specification:

This invention consists in securing in the front edge of a sheet-metal trough a bar, for the purposes of strengthening the trough, easing the passage of the clothes to the wringer-rolls, and causing the water to flow from the middle of the trough, as hereinafter explained.

Figure l is a front or face view of a wringer provided with my improvement; and Fig. 2, a vertical cross-section of the same.

A A represent the standards or frame in which the wringer-rolls are mounted. B B are the wringer-rolls; and O, the trough secured in the frame below said rolls, for the purpose of catching the water, which is removed from the clothes, and directing it back again into the tub or other receptacle, as usual.

The trough is, in the present instance, made of sheet metal, cut and folded into shape in the ordinary manner.

D is the bar forming the subject of the present invention. It is made of wood or metal, and secured lengthwise in the front of the trough by means of screws or'nails passed through the sides of the trough into its ends. It is preferably arranged so that it cannot turn, and is also, by preference, made of decreasing size from each end toward the middle, as clearly shown in Fig. 1. It is arranged so that its ends bear, for a greater or less distance, on the bottom of the trough, as in Fig. 1.

When the bar is constructed and arranged as shown and described it serves to brace and strengthen the trough, and prevents it from being bent or sagged down at the middle by the weight of the articles passing to the wringer-rolls. It prevents the articles from catching or binding on the front edge of the trough, and thereby eases their passage to the rolls. It causes the water which falls into the trough to escape therefrom mainly at the middle, so that it will not splash outside of the tub or machine; and it prevents the articles which are passing to the rolls from coming in contact with the water from the trough. In order to fully answer the last purpose the bar should project as far as possible beyond the edge of the trough. Instead of being fixed, the bar may be arranged to turn, but it is not considered desirable. While it is cheapest to make the bar round in crosssection it is obvious that when held stationary its lower side may be made of any other desired form. The bar may be of wood or of cast or sheet metal, and it may be used with advantage in a trough of very thin cast metal, although it is of the greatest advantage when used in a sheet-metal trough, as shown.

In the drawings I have shown two vertical rounded pieces, E, formed of sheet metal, secured to the sides of the frame, to prevent the fabric from chafing on the latter.

7e are aware that it is old to secure rolls both in and in front of the frame of a clotheswrin ger above the deflecting board or apron, for the purpose of easing the passage of the clothes to the wringer rolls, and also that it is old to make such rolls with flanged ends, and we lay no claim thereto; but

Having described our invention, what we do claim is- In combination with the sheet-metal trough of a clothes-wringer, a bar, D, of decreasing size toward its middle, secured in the front edge and at the bottom of said trough, as and for the purposes described.

MARTIN WAY. FRANK WAY. Witnesses:

J. J. SMITH, J. N. BAKER. 

